Weekend Reads: Scroll.in ’s Arunabh Saikia speaks to the Delhi rioters who tell him, chillingly, how they killed Muslims in the February ...
Weekend Reads:
- Scroll.in’s Arunabh Saikia speaks to the Delhi rioters who tell him, chillingly, how they killed Muslims in the February violence: “I was the first to catch up with him, and hit him with my rod on his head... Then he fell down, and the public pounced on him after that…de dhana dhan dhan.”
- “When Hindu mobs next target a Muslim in any part of the country administered by Mr. Modi’s party, we can be sure that no police will stand in their way,” writes Hartosh Singh Bal in the New York Times.
- We still don’t have a clear idea of what happened to Ankit Sharma, a staffer of the Intelligence Bureau, who was among the 53 killed in the Delhi riots. Ayush Tiwari of Newslaundry, takes a look at the discrepancies in media coverage and offers a ground report with more context.
- There is no denying it: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has led to deeply negative coverage of India all over the world, as more countries recognise what his Hindu nationalist agenda has done to the country, writes James Manor in The Wire.
- This is how the Delhi government hopes to nip COVID-19 in the bud: “the integrated disease surveillance programme” which aims to keep track of all individuals diagnosed with it, and anyone who came...
